Why Health Care Lacks Love

I am a woman doctor, but I inherited a patriarchal medical model. A patriarchal medical model rewards male values.

MALE VALUES:﻿

Speed

Volume

Bigness

Toughness

Graphs

Charts

Algorithms

Proof

Strength

Fighting (war metaphors)

But I am a woman doctor. I have female values.

FEMALE VALUES:

Relationships

Nurturing

Hugging

Joy

Laughing

Crying (feeling deeply)

Spirituality

Sharing

Caring

LOVE!

To be accepted in a man’s world, women adopt male values. A patriarchal medical model produces masculinized women doctors. I did not go into medicine to be a masculinized woman doctor. I went into medicine to be a healer—and a woman. And that’s what I am.

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